The effect of intending to break the fast without eating on the fast

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if one makes the intention and resolves to break the fast, but does not find anything to eat, does he become one who has broken his fast merely by his resolution?

Answer:
If one cuts off the intention in the obligatory fast, he has broken his fast, and whoever intends to break the fast has broken it, because he has cut off the intention. As for the voluntary fast, there is no harm; if he does not eat or drink, merely cutting off the fast by intention does not affect the voluntary act, because it is valid that he fasts during the day, intending to fast from the day.